The Independent Republicans were a French right-wing political group, which became a political party with the creation of the National Federation of the Independent Republicans in 1966.
The Republican Party of Minnesota, as its name implies, is the Minnesota branch of the United States Republican Party.
The Republican Party in Minnesota was the dominant party in the state for approximately the first hundred years of Minnesota's statehood (1858 through the 1950s).
Republicans are in the majority in the Minnesota House of Representatives, but are in the minority by five seats in the Minnesota Senate.
In 1974, he won Vermont's sole seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served for fourteen years and was the ranking Republican member of the House Education and Labor Committee.
On June 5, 2001, Jeffords left the Republican Party, with which he had always been affiliated, and announced his new status as an Independent.
Jeffords' Independent status changed the Senate composition from 50-50 (with a Republican Vice President, Dick Cheney, who would break all ties in favor of the Republicans) to 49 Republicans, 50 Democrats, and one Independent.
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